JESSICA G. BANGAYAN
BS PSYCHOLOGY 4
PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT QUESTIONS
1. What is the gathering and integration of psychology-related data for the purpose of making
a psychological evaluation that is accomplished through the use of tools?
a. Psychological Assessment
b. Psychological Testing
c. Retrospective Assessment
d. Psychometrics
2. Which of the following of the variety of assessments is the use of evaluative tools to draw
conclusions about psychological aspects of a person as they existed at some point in time
prior to the assessment?
a. Educational Assessment
b. Collaborative Psychological Assessment
c. Occupational Assessment
d. Retrospective Assessment
3. What is the process of measuring psychology-related variables by means of devices or
procedures designed to obtain a sample of behavior?
a. Psychological Assessment
b. Retrospective Assessment
c. Psychological Testing
d. Psychometrics
4. When the assessor and assessee may work as “partners” from initial contact through final
feedback, what does it call?
a. Educational Assessment
b. Remote Assessment
c. Collaborative Psychological Assessment
d. Retrospective Assessment
5. What is the device or procedure designed to measure variables related to psychology?
a. Psychological Test
b. Test
c. Psychological Assessment
d. Survey
6. Which variables pertain to the form, plan, structure, arrangement, and layout of test items
as well as to related considerations such as time limits?
a. Content
b. Format
c. Scoring
d. Interpretation
7. What is the science of psychological measurement?
a. Psychometric Soundness
b. Phrenology
c. Psychological Assessment
d. Psychometrics
8. It refers to the usefulness or practical value that a test or other assessment tool has for a
particular purpose.
a. Validity
b. Reliability
c. Utility
d. Sustainability
9. It is also referred to as a board interview …
a. Panel Interview
b. Motivational Interview
c. Family Interview
d. Occupational Interview
10. What is the process of assigning such evaluative codes or statements to performance on
tests, tasks, interviews, or other behavior samples?
a. Interpreting
b. Scoring
c. Administering
d. Testing
11. What do criterion-referenced tests seek to achieve?
a. The test subject's score is countered with one from a prior attempt at a test of
similar difficulty.
b. The result of the test is contrasted with a pertinent standardized sample.
c. The score of the test subject is compared to clearly defined criteria.
d. Everyone who took the examinations passed them.
12. Which of the following is NOT an approach to assessment?
a. Collaborative Psychological Assessment
b. Therapeutic Psychological Assessment
c. Dynamic Assessment
d. Occupational Assessment
13. It is also referred to as a board interview …
a. Panel Interview
b. Motivational Interview
c. Family Interview
d. Occupational Interview
14. Which Wechsler subtest is the most suitable measurement tool for general skills?
a. Arithmetic
b. Digit span
c. Visual puzzles
d. Number Sequence
15. What is the form or sheet or booklet on which a testtaker’s responses are entered?
a. Protocol
b. Psychological Folder
c. Individual Psychological Record
d. Psychological Health Record
16. It is typically associated with the dominant culture in countries such as the United States
and Great Britain.
a. Individualist Culture
b. Collectivist Culture
c. Psychological Culture
d. Folk culture
17. What does it call the rules that individuals must obey for the good of the society as a
whole—or rules thought to be for the good of society as a whole?
a. Laws
b. Ethics
c. Standards
d. Rules
18. What does it call a body of principles of right, proper, or good conduct?
a. Laws
b. Ethics
c. Standards
d. Rules
19. Records, transcripts, or other accounts in written, pictorial, or other form that preserves
archival information, official and informal accounts, and other data and items relevant to
an assessee
a. Portfolio
b. Case History Data
c. Behavioral Observation
d. Naturalistic Observation
20. The scoring of the test will be done on-site
a. Local Processing
b. Central Processing
c. Teleprocessing
d. Simple Scoring Report
21. What is the study socializing behavior of autistic children with same-age peers?
a. Portfolio
b. Case History Data
c. Behavioral Observation
d. Naturalistic Observation
22. It is distinguished by its inclusion of numerical or narrative interpretive statements in the
report.
a. Extended Scoring Report
b. Interpretive Report
c. Consultative Report
d. Integrative Report
23. What tool of assessment wherein assessees are directed to act as if they were in a
particular situation?
a. Behavioral Observation
b. Naturalistic Observation
c. Role Play Test
d. Local Processing
24. Processing occurs at a central location, test-related data may be sent to and returned from
this central facility by means of phone lines
a. Local Processing
b. Central Processing
c. Teleprocessing
d. Simple Scoring Report
25. What scoring conducted at some central location?
a. Central Processing
b. Teleprocessing
c. Simple Scoring Report
d. Extended Scoring Report
26. Who coined the term “mental test”?
a. Wilhelm Wundt
b. Charles Spearman
c. James Mckeen Cattel
d. Emil Kraeplin
27. Which of the following is NOT part of the Big Five dimensions assessed by the NEO
Personality Inventory?
a. Consciousness
b. Extroversion
c. Optimism
d. Neuroticism
28. Which of the choices is NOT the right pair?
a. Extraversion = Introversion/Extraversion
b. Neuroticism = Low Anxiety/High Anxiety
c. Agreeableness = Independence/Accommodation
d. Conscientiousness = Low Self-Love/High Self-Control
29. The average arithmetic score in a distribution is called
.
a. Mean
b. Median
c. Mode
d. Standard Deviation
30.
is the test scores and criterion measures are obtained at about
at the same time.
a. Predictive Validity
b. Concurrent Validity
c. Construct Validity
d. Convergent Validity
31. A business owner often asks their customer to rate their services on a scale from 1 to 10,
where 1 is unsatisfied, and 10 is satisfied. This technique is called_______.
a. Category format
b. Likert format
c. Checklist
d. Q-sort
32. Refer to the performances of defined groups on particular tests.
a. Population
b. Norms
c. Standardization
d. Samples
33. What does it call the ongoing process by which an individual’s thoughts, behaviors, values,
worldview, and identity develop in relation to the general thinking, behavior, customs, and values
of a particular cultural group?
a. Acculturation
b. Values
c. Culture
d. Norm
34. What does it call the consequence of one’s belief that a vague personality description truly
describes oneself when in reality that description may apply to almost anyone?
a. Barnum Effect
b. Belief Effect
c. Culture Effect
d. Boomerang Effect
35. It is defined as a set of cognitive and behavioral characteristics by which individuals define
themselves as members of a particular group.
a. Identification
b. Identity
c. Culture
d. Norm
36. In what category is the part of the inkblot that was utilized in forming the percept?
a. Location
b. Determinants
c. Content
d. Popularity
37. What does it call a task that may be used in personality assessment in which an assessee
verbalizes the first word that comes to mind in response to a stimulus word.
a. Word Association Tests
b. Sentence Completion Tests
c. Thematic Apperception Test
d. Rorschach Test
38. What is the psychological battery of tests, a widely used screening tool for neuropsychological
deficit that entails copying and recalling designs?
a. Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test
b. Thematic Apperception Test
c. Draw-A-Person Test
d. Hand Test
39. What type of psychological battery of test usually focuses more on informal as opposed to
formal learning experiences and is designed to measure both learning and inborn potential for the
purpose of making predictions about the testtaker’s future performance?
a. Achievement Test
b. Aptitude Tests
c. Intelligence Test
d. Personality Test
40. It is the reservoir or well from which items will or will not be drawn for the final version of the
test.
a. Item-Reliability Index
b. Item-Mapping Method
c. Item Sampling
d. Item Pool
41.What theory is also referred to as the latent-trait model?
a. Latent-trait theory
b. Theory of motivation
c. Alderfer theory
d. Generalizability Theory
42. What refers to a process whereby each person evaluated for a position will be either accepted
or rejected for that position?
a. Screening
b. Classification
c. Selection
d. Placement
43. What is a diagnostic procedure typically performed by a neurologist in which spinal fluid is
extracted from the spinal column by means of an inserted needle?
a. Thoracic puncture
b. Lumbar puncture
c. Electromyograph
d. Brain Scan
44. The bell-shaped, smooth, mathematically defined curve highest at the center and gradually
tapered on both sides, approaching but never actually touching the horizontal axis, is called
___________.
a. Normal Curve
b. J-shaped Curve
c. Scatter Diagram
d. Scattergram
45. What is the branch of social psychology that deals primarily with the development, advertising,
and marketing of products and services
a. Organizational Psychology
b. Consumer Psychology
c. Social Psychology
d. Psychology of Sociology
46. What is a test used to classify assessees by psychological type and to shed light on “basic
differences in the ways human beings take in information and make decisions”?
a. MBTI
b. BPI
c. TAT
d. MMPI
47, is deficit in communication due to impaired speech or writing ability
a. Acopia
b. Aphasia
c. Ataxia
d. Apraxia
48. It is a processing based on Lucia’s writings, a type of information processing whereby
information is processed in a sequential, bit-by-bit fashion and arranged and rearranged until it is
logical.
a. Successive Processing
b. Local Processing
c. Sequential Processing
d. Central Processing
49. An estimate of the internal consistency of a test obtained by correlating two pairs of scores
obtained from equivalent halves of a single test administered once, is called __________.
a. Split-Half Reliability
b. Test-Retest Reliability
c. Inter-Scorer Reliability
d. Alternate-Form Reliability
50. It is a type of test which has three elements: a stem, correct alternative or option, and several
improper or distractors.
a. Multiple-choice format
b. Essay
c. Sentence Completion
d. Matching Type
1. A
2. D
3. C
4. C
5. A
6. B
7. D
8. C
9. A
10. B
11. C
12. D
13. A
14. B
15. A
16. A
17. A
18. B
19. B
20. F
TRUE or FALSE
41. T
42.T
43.F
44.T
45.F
ANSWER KEY
21. D
22.K
23.E
24.H
25.G
26.C
27.C
28.D
29.A
30.B
31.A
32.B
33.A
34.A
35.B
36.A
37.A
38.A
39.B
40D
46. T
47.F
48.F
49.T
50.F
JESSICA G. BANGAYAN
BS PSYCHOLOGY 4